Please READ! AFL-CIO: Contact Your Senator for the 99% (Wall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act)

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Working familes in Washington, D.C., and Cannes, France (where leaders of the G-20 are meeting), rallied yesterday for passage of a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street. You can join the action by telling Wall Street it’s time to pay its fair share.

The Robin Hood (financial speculation) tax is a tiny pinch that would be felt primarily by high-volume, high-speed traders who deal in stocks, bonds, foreign currency bets, derivatives and other Wall Street financial products. Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) introduced just such legislation, the “http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/11/02/robin-hood-tax-bill-introduced-in-congress/">Wall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act.”

Click http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fact.aflcio.org%2Fp%2Fsalsa%2Fweb%2Fcommon%2Fpublic%2Fcontent%3Fcontent_item_KEY%3D9168">here to call your senators in support of a financial speculation tax. If you complete at least one call, we’ll send you a free “I am the 99%” bumper sticker.

More at the link!

Nice to see some Democrats in Congress still fighting for The People!

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1. Awesome. Civic duty AND a free bumper sticker!

Doesn't get much better than this.

NGU.

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2. It's a good deal all-around! I would like to see this legislation or...

...something like it passed to cut down on the speculation in the market.

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3. Saturday kick!

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